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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElectronic voting machines are just
not much different than a laptop computer. Having been in programming from Jan. 1961 until July 1999 (when I retired), it is so incredibly easy to program those machines to do anything you want. Most (if not all) companies DO NOT ALLOW auditing of their programs. The only valid reason is they don't want their 'fix the election' programming to be found. They say the software is 'proprietary', with is just a bunch of crap. Auditors would not report anything useful about their programs UNLESS they found the 'fix the votes' coding). When a presidential candidate's SON owns some of these 'computer/voting machines', do you really think (esp. in Romney's family case) that they would NOT put the fix in? Although that is a possibility, would you believe he didn't put the fix in?)Just saying.
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Electronic voting machines are just (Original Post)
clydefrand
Oct 2012
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clydefrand
(4,325 posts)1. just an addendum
the 'NSA' expert says any changing of the votes could be determined statistically.
WRONG. NOT if you are a really good programmer.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)2. I've been singing your song for ten years and have been unable to gain any traction. Good
luck to you and the rest of us. Too late for this year.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)3. Oh, and hey...
When the "results" the machines give us are wildly different from the exit polls, exit polls must be wrong and should be discontinued. When it happens in other countries, why, major variation from exit polls is the surest sign of election fraud.
Qutzupalotl
(14,312 posts)4. Agreed, but now with early voting in so many places,
exit polling becomes much more difficult.
I don't have an answer.